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Semibreve / Joh F. Deane.
Van Pelt Library PR6054.E219 S46 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deane, John F., 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 131 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Carcanet Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- A sparrow flew, as if a hawk were in pursuit, into the sanctuary of our seminary chapel; I was quenching candles, relishing the afterscent; it perched a while on a small brass crucifix over the tabernacle, and I remembered: better are you than many sparrows, and laughed, not being sure... (from 'Rose Window') Book jacket.
- Contents:
- I
- Semibreve 3
- Viola d'amore 4
- Black and White 5
- The Living-Room - 6
- Playing on the White Notes 7
- Tuning 8
- Theme and Variations 9
- Pipe Organ 12
- II
- Great Northern Diver 15
- Nora 16
- Hydrangeas 17
- High Tide 18
- Dolores 19
- Dancing the Dance 20
- Midwife 21
- Blueberries 22
- Egg-Woman 23
- III
- The Workhouse 27
- IV
- Rain Falling in the Far West 43
- November 46
- Release 48
- Workshop 49
- Museum of Country Life 50
- Still Life 52
- Night Prayer 53
- Paul, the Apostle, Told 55
- Guardian 56
- The Swallow 57
- In the Margins 58
- Driftwood 59
- John Clare's Bedlam 60
- Tracks 61
- Genova, Italia 63
- V
- The Summer of 2010 67
- The Shower 68
- Heron 69
- Burial 72
- Sean Gaunt Heron 73
- Wherefore art thou Romeo? 74
- Eucalyptus 78
- The Seal 79
- VI
- Dead Weight 83
- A Fledgling Saint 84
- The Pride of Life 85
- The Rose Window 86
- Leftovers 87
- Before the Crib 88
- A Birth 89
- Butcher 90
- Name and Nature 91
- Late in the Season 92
- Clew Bay, 1894, 2010 93
- Nocturne 95
- Reasons of the Heart 96
- Muir Woods, California 97
- Bunnacurry Pier 98
- Brother 99
- Unfinished Symphony 103
- VII
- Blessed and Broken 107.
- ISBN:
- 9781847772695
- 1847772692
- OCLC:
- 918608155
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